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A backyard geothermal loop sunk feet from the next one, and shared boreholes slowly chill the ground so output fades for decades, engineers find

Ground source heat pumps promise endless free heat, but dense borehole fields can chill the surrounding earth and cut output ...
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A strip mall lot built for 200 cars sits nearly empty most of the day, and economists find America’s surplus parking now costs over a trillion dollars yearly

Transportation researchers find the US carries roughly five parking spaces per vehicle, a hidden cost topping a trillion ...
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A pickup brand sold 134,072 trucks in one US quarter, edging past its longtime Stellantis stablemate SUV brand for the first time since Ram split from Dodge seventeen years ago

A pickup brand outsold its SUV sibling in the US for the first time since 2009, as a 73 percent truck surge offset a 20 percent SUV slide.
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A decentralized rival gained 10 million users in two months, but its app has shed over half its active base while Threads grew past 147 million

Bluesky's monthly active users have fallen over 50% from their peak even as registrations climb, while Meta's Threads surges past 147 million daily users.
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A streaming app has crossed 10 million households, closing in on the cable operator that still leads US pay television, and the entire industry model is flipping with it

A streaming TV app passed 10 million subscribers this year, overtaking Charter Spectrum as the largest pay TV provider in the US.
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Messaging has replaced most phone calls for 37% of Americans, YouGov finds

A new YouGov survey finds 68% of Americans say messaging has replaced at least some phone calls, with millennials leading the shift.
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Startup taps underwater volcano for world’s first subsea geothermal test

Endurance Energy drilled a subsea geothermal well into an underwater volcano off Oregon, proving net-positive power generation on the seafloor.
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A Lucid Air recall touched 27,185 cars for a wiring fire risk, but a wireless update alone had already fixed 20,719 of them before a single owner saw a dealer

A Lucid Air recall over an exterior lighting fire risk shows how wireless software updates are quietly reshaping how car ...
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A phone flashes a weekly report showing 4 hours and 12 minutes of use, but new research finds checking that number rarely shrinks how much people scroll

Screen time tracking apps are sold as the fix for phone overuse, but research finds the awareness they create rarely cuts ...
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An AI lab’s code merges jumped from 2,500 a day last spring to more than 30,000 by September, and the surge forced engineers to replace Git across its entire codebase

An AI company's daily code merges hit 30,000, a record pace that forced engineers to build a replacement for Git in just five ...
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Secondhand shopping becomes routine for 76 percent of Americans

A new report finds 76% of Americans bought secondhand goods in the past year, with Gen Z and rising prices driving the shift.
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Meta’s subscription push lifts Instagram in-app purchase revenue 475 percent

New data shows Meta One subscriptions driving a 475 percent jump in Instagram's daily in-app revenue since launch.